The Daily Beast has the book’s juiciest leaks – namely, that before she was married Sarah had a sexual encounter with a future NBA basketball star (substantiated-ish); that she had an affair with her husband’s business partner (denied by all involved); and that in her youth she used both cocaine and marijuana (unclear).

This is not to say that the biggest hoopla about the book – which will be released on Sept. 20 – is what’s inside it. Most of the fireworks are about real estate. It seems that just as McGinniss was moving to Wasilla to interview Palin’s fellow citizens about the former governor, the house next to Sarah and Todd opened up. McGinniss seized the opportunity, rented the place for the summer, and wrote most the book within spitting distance of his subject.